A Message From Your Friends At The Southeast AETC: Our hearts go out to those in our community who were affected by the hurricanes. If you have patients that are having trouble accessing HIV services during this time, we urge you to utilize HRSA’s Find a Ryan White Provider tool to help navigate them to services nearby.

Webinar: Impact of Health Literacy Across the HIV Treatment Cascade

Issues Related to the Care of PWH, Webcast

Objectives

  • Define health literacy
  • Define HIV health literacy
  • Describe impact of limited health and HIV health literacy
  • Describe the impact of limited health literacy related to diagnosis, retention, adherence, and viral suppression

Presentation

Slides

Facilitated by Melverta M. Bender, MLS, MPH
Research Director, STI Working Group
Project Manager, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Mississippi AETC
November 9, 2016

Objectives

  • Define health literacy
  • Define HIV health literacy
  • Describe impact of limited health and HIV health literacy
  • Describe the impact of limited health literacy related to diagnosis, retention, adherence, and viral suppression

Presentation

Slides

Facilitated by Melverta M. Bender, MLS, MPH
Research Director, STI Working Group
Project Manager, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Mississippi AETC
November 9, 2016

Objectives

  • Define health literacy
  • Define HIV health literacy
  • Describe impact of limited health and HIV health literacy
  • Describe the impact of limited health literacy related to diagnosis, retention, adherence, and viral suppression

Presentation

Slides